Nuro
ML Research Scientist, Prediction & Smart Agents
$194K–$291K
Mountain View, California (HQ) +1 · Full-time · Posted Feb 19, 2026
- Location
- Mountain View, California (HQ)
Nuro HQ - Mountain View, CA - Experience
- 2+ years deploying machine-learning systems onboard, ideally in prediction.
- Education
- M.Sc. or Ph.D. (preferable) focusing on Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Mathematics, or a closely related field.
About the job
Develop machine-learning models that predict surrounding traffic behavior and controllable agents for autonomous driving and closed-loop simulation.
What you'll do
- Build scalable models that generate multimodal, realistic, kinematically feasible trajectories.
- Research generative sequence modeling and sequential decision-making, and develop controllable agents for simulation and reinforcement-learning training.
- Collaborate across autonomy teams to address uncertainty and deliver deployable solutions for real-world vehicles.
What they ask for
- M.Sc. or Ph.D. (preferable) in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Mathematics, or a closely related field.
- Expertise and research experience in at least one listed area, such as prediction, sequential decision-making, imitation learning, deep reinforcement learning, generative modeling, or machine learning for robotics.
- Strong programming skills in Python; PyTorch experience.
- Demonstrated research publications in top conferences.
Nice to have
- C++ programming skills.
- Background in embodied AI for robotics, causal reasoning, model interpretability, joint prediction and planning, or diffusion models.
Pay
$193,930 and $291,150 USD base salary
Tools
Python, C++, PyTorch, Reinforcement Learning (RL)
AI focus
Research and deploy generative sequence and prediction models for traffic behavior, interactive agents, and closed-loop autonomous-driving simulation.
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